virulente
\vi.ʁy.lɑ̃t\
The verdict
“virulente” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,233. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,233
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de virulent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-virulente · virulente · French
virulente · rank #32,233 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,233
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Villejuif
Nearest frequency peer: Villejuif (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « virulente »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- veillant
veillant
67,771 corpus weight
- Villejuif
Villejuif
67,769 corpus weight
- virulente
virulente
67,768 corpus weight
- vivaces
vivaces
67,767 corpus weight
- VIVO
VIVO
67,766 corpus weight
- volta
volta
67,765 corpus weight
What this shows « virulente » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | virulente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vi.ʁy.lɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « virulente »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around virulente (IPA \vi.ʁy.lɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,233 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de virulent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for virulente, with forms such as "ivrulente", "virluente", and "virrulente". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "virulents", "virulentes", "virulent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is virulente, spelled V-I-R-U-L-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de virulent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how virulente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La propagande antibritannique des Frères devient alors moins virulente, car trop coûteuse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivrulente
- virluente
- virrulente
- viruelnte
- virulenet
- virulennte
- virulentte
- viruletne
- virullente
- virulnete
- viurlente
- vriulente
- vvirulente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of virulente - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).